7/VIII.

Comrade Safarov!

I am very grateful for the pamphlet¹²⁰ and the other materials.

We are sending Ioffe to attempt to combine your line and Tomsky's.

This must be done.

Absolutely — bread and meat to Moscow first and foremost.

For this purpose, and in general the "New Economic Policy" and a series of concessions and incentives to the merchants.

At the same time, systematic and maximum concern for the Muslim poor, their organization and education.

It is possible and it is necessary to work out and consolidate (in a series of most precise directives) such a policy.

It must be a model for all the East.

Best regards!

Your Lenin

P. S. After the line is worked out, they will probably grant you a leave as well.

Written August 7, 1921

Sent to Tashkent

First printed not in full

in V. I. Lenin's Collected Works, 4th ed.,

vol. 35

Printed in full for the first time,

according to the manuscript